WeChat Pay Facial Recognition Bypassed: An Unfortunate Reminder of AI Incident Prevention
July 1, 2020
In China, fraudsters utilized victims' selfies from WeChat Moments, a social media platform, to craft identity-verification GIFs, bypassing facial-recognition security for online financial transactions on WeChat Pay. This AI incident underscores the importance of trustworthy AI and emphasizes the role of Project Cerebellum in establishing govern functions like safe and secure AI practices. Ready to help shape responsible AI? JOIN US
- Alleged deployer
- wechat-pay
- Alleged developer
- Alleged harmed parties
- wechat-pay-users
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/224
Data source
Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).
When citing the database as a whole, please use:
McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.
Pre-print on arXiv · Database snapshots & citation guide
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